Floating boat docks

[Dart96]

This post is about antifouling and those boat docks that powerboaters drive their boats up.

The hydrohoist system won't work or is as the mooring is 50m from power.

My club has a 16ft 500kg sailing boat, a Devon Yawl.

Getting her antifouled is getting more and more expensive, and the environmental water quality issues are more pressing.

These boats have plenty of rocker, a deep v forefoot and elliptical cross sections, internal ballast and a 60kg Centreboard.

She is on a three quarter tide swinging mud mooring

I have seen one of those drive up boat docks with a similar boat on it. It had a winch to pull the boat up. It's gone now so can't ask the owner.

Has anyone had one of these with a sailboat on it?
Did it need a winch to get the boat on as well as off?

Picture is of ours.

 

[Cwinsor]

that's a pretty boat

 

[bissona]

I had a Corsair Pulse 600 tri on a simple floating dock. We used a 8:1 block system to pull it up, and gunned the engine. Bit heavy but never had to antifoul the boat. Mine was in a marina but the guys that bought it were moving it (with the dock) to a swing mooring on a river.

 

[Fleetwood]

Are boat bags a thing in the UK?
Easier and cheaper if they are.

 

[Dart96]

Thanks Fleetwood!
I have just discovered them in Australia. Seems like they ideal. Do you have any experience? I need ones for mud berths. How do they cope if you dry out?

 

[FlyingCircus2]

I've thought a lot about this, too. Something involving a gantry and chain hoist bolted to a floating dock.

Might be a fun project in the future, but I thought it was 50/50 I'd end up with an unusable pile of junk and still have to paint the boat!

 

[Dart96]

Water quality is becoming a big issue, I can across an article about copper in San Diego, a pause in boat cleaning and the effect it had.
Here in the UK there are also water quality problems and the boat bag idea had its merits, especially with chlorine tablets like you use in hot tubs.

 

[FlyingCircus2]

Water quality is becoming a big issue, I can across an article about copper in San Diego, a pause in boat cleaning and the effect it had.
Here in the UK there are also water quality problems and the boat bag idea had its merits, especially with chlorine tablets like you use in hot tubs.

Did you find a good website? I kept getting taken to handbag websites.

 

[Dart96]

Try this:

Home | boatbag

www.boatbag.com.au

 

[Dart96]

Try this as well, though the name makes me cringe!

Home - DockyDock

dockydock.com

 

[Fleetwood]

Thanks Fleetwood!
I have just discovered them in Australia. Seems like they ideal. Do you have any experience? I need ones for mud berths. How do they cope if you dry out?

No direct experience but they are comon enough around here for race boats on moorings. I knew a dealer awhile ago, he liked them...
We don't do mud.

 

[apophenia]

Be careful, it's a DockyDock world out there.